tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8666322160909245642.post7955376091113942031..comments2023-10-26T19:45:55.693+11:00Comments on Lieutenant Dave: Julie Andrews leadsCaptain Collohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15923647122224271086noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8666322160909245642.post-78254801692794851092007-10-02T09:48:00.000+10:002007-10-02T09:48:00.000+10:00Dave, The Starfish and the Spider approach to lead...Dave, The Starfish and the Spider approach to leadership sounds helpful, but the author's efforts have mixed results. They do show how cooperative networks can benefit by operating without centralization. The trouble is they cannot explain how you can do it. The best they can do is explain hoiw to interupt or redirect a stafish network when its chewing up a companies profits. We need to remind ourselves that the church is not a business corporation and so borrowing leadership models from the corporate world simply will not work. Christian leadership has theological roots, an understanding that seems startlingly absent from contemporary discussion or practice. Our biblical and theological convictions and understanding shapes our actions as leaders as well as all the practical questions about how to lead the church. Starfish is a modern framework for forming the imagination of the corporate world. What is absent from such a framework is a theological accounting of Christian leadership as the calling to form alternative communities of the Kingdom shaped by the biblical and theological narrative.<BR/>WJEAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com